On 10/23/14, Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Joel Rees wrote: >> If the debian community is not unfriendly to a fork (particularly as >> an alternative to the acrimony about systemd), why would some >> discussion here be inappropriate? > > Because the fork would no longer be Debian, and it has nothing to do > with the support of Debian. Debian has lots of forks and derivatives, > but they were formed by people actually sitting down and doing the work, > not agitating for the fork/derivative on Debian mailing lists.
Ack. And besides, there are plenty(1) of options(2) which are a far better way to go than a full fork. (1) https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends (2) https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives Option (1) is preferable, even with some custom packages, to minimize work. At some number of custom packages/ rebuilds, your "blend" would effectively be a instance of one of the many variants listed at (2). Further guidance/ suggestions: (3) https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines Working together, is almost always preferable to "separating from" or worse "working against". Enjoy, Zenaan -- Banned for life from (some parts of, the specifics of which I don't yet understand) Debian, for suggesting Debian's C.o.Conduct is being swung in our faces a little too vigorously. _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list D-community-offtopic@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic